Dandies and image makers

Joyful,liberating and gloriously subversive. People inventing and projecting their own style.Often if you have got less materially then you often end up wearing your wealth and projecting your own style. Your art is your life- something that Oscar Wilde also understood. It is also by the way true of going out in Newcastle (rather than London)- people dress up to the nines for a night out. Some of my favourite images

2) Terence Donovan – speed of light

TD described what he did as “organised visual lying”. He was a great image maker. The people who sat for him enjoyed his company and relaxed. This shines through in many of the iconic image he created.

It is a nostalgic show – it reminded me of the 80s ad’ scene when consumerism boomed. TD got rich by providing images for both the ads and editorial during the golden age of glossy magazines-those vehicles of aspiration and desire- many of them no longer with us. Like Man about town- that became Town and then disappeared an a